deployment for different environments with maven and spring - spring

Question

I've got two properties files:
environment.properties:
- project.host.db3.database.name=oracle
application.properties:
- database.name=${project.host.db3.database.name}
The first one represents the environment variables and the second one the properties to be used in a spring project, in this configuration i try to set the environment.properties but of course it doesn't work:
<bean id="systemPropertiesLoader"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="targetObject" value="#{#systemProperties}" />
<property name="targetMethod" value="putAll" />
<property name="arguments">
<util:properties location="classpath:environment.properties" />
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="propertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
depends-on="systemPropertiesLoader">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:application.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
<!-- bean using database.name -->
Is it doable?, and if not, how do people have agnostic properties in their projects (like database.name), and only one file (war, jar, etc.) to be deployed?

Answer 1

Well, it seems it's doable for beans xml defined as long as you define your properties it like this:
<bean id="propertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
depends-on="systemPropertiesLoader">
But if you ever try to access the properties from a servlet:
this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("application.properties");
chances are you get this:
bad port configuration: ${project.host.db3.database.port}
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "${project.host.db3.database.port}"
In answer to yorkw, now i can have the same war to be deployed in several environments and configure the host with -Denvironment=development, so i can deploy a properties file for development, production, etc. and simply use:
<bean id="systemPropertiesLoader"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="targetObject" value="#{#systemProperties}" />
<property name="targetMethod" value="putAll" />
<property name="arguments">
<util:properties location="classpath:**${environment}/**environment.properties" />
</property>
</bean>
Otherwise i should have the application.properties substituted before deployment for every environment. I'm sure there are better solutions than this.